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Monday, June 17, 2013
Indian investment fuelled by foreign loans
A recent series of takeovers by Indian firms of foreign businesses has been fuelled by the availability of cheap loans from international banks.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
MoD move to expand procurement services
The Ministry of Defence have undertaken the largest recruitment drive in the department’s history, with a target of 180 new staff to increase purchasing roles throughout varying different levels of seniority.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Public Accounts Committee attacks NHS & CSC patient record system
The decision to proceed with the troubled Lorenzo patient record systems has been heavily criticised by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
NAO to investigate BT’s monopoly on rural broadband contracts
The National Audit Office (NAO) has moved investigate the publicly funded rural broadband programme, designed to provide superfast broadband to businesses and households throughout the UK
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Centrica enters into talks for UK fracking stake
Energy giants Centrica who are the owners of British Gas, have entered into talks with Cuadrilla Resources, a leader in shale gas fracking within the UK, about buying a stake in shale gas operations.
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
Network Rail simplifies IT supplier list
UK rail infrastructure provider Network Rail has signed a series of new framework agreements with IT suppliers.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Dell and Oracle extend existing shared partnership
IT giants Dell and Oracle have extended an existing partnership, which will see Dell continue to package Oracle software and services with hardware, while Oracle in turn will optimise services for Dell’s product offering.
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Norfolk County Council moves to find supplier for £100m million cloud framework
Norfolk County Council has tendered a new IT cloud framework, in a contract valued at potentially more than £100 million over a seven year period, with the option for a two year extension.
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Monday, June 03, 2013
Amazon develops new London site
Amazon has moved to construct a new London based development site, the new offices will house 1,600 new and existing employees.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
RBS rejects U.S. bid
The Royal Bank of Scotland has rejected a bid from a joint proposal from U.S. equity firms JC Flowers and Apollo as the bank begins to narrow the bidding shortlist.
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